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The dataset is covering the period from 1 June 2017 10 April 2018 until present.

MARS

If you have access to ECMWF systems you can retrieve test data from MARS archive using keywords:

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WebAPI service

If you don't have access to ECMWF computers but would still like to access a large subset of test data you can use ECMWF WebAPI service.

Info

Read documentation and see brief request syntax of the ECMWF WebAPI service.

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languagepy
titleNetCDF
#!/usr/bin/env python
from ecmwfapi import ECMWFDataServer
server = ECMWFDataServer()

server.retrieve({
    "dataset":   "cams_esuite",
    "stream":    "oper",
    "type":      "fc",
    "date":      "2017070120180415/to/2017071020180424",
    "time":      "00",    
    "step":      "0/to/23/by/1",
    "levtype":   "sfc",
    "format":    "netcdf",
    "param" :    "aod550",         # see parameter table at http://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/ftp-access-global-data
    "grid":      "0.4/0.4",        # 0.4 x 0.4 regular lat-lon grid
    "area":      "70/-35/35/60",   # N/E/S/W area boundaries
    "target":    "/tmp/cams_test_201707201804.nc"
})

 

FTP dissemination

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/DATA/CAMS_GLOBAL_TEST
/DATA/CAMS_GLOBAL_ADDITIONAL
/DATA/CAMS_EUROPE_BC_TEST

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If everything else fails ...

... you can always contact us by using this contact form putting "Request for CAMS global test dataset" as a subject and specify:

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